Fashioning the body an intimate history of the silhouette ; [published in conjunction with the Exhibition "Fashioning the Body: an Intimate History of the Silhouette", held at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, April 3 to July 26, 2015]

Medieval fashion, bodies, and transformationsPuffed out chests and paunched bellies : the broadening of men's bodies from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century -- The pourpoint of Charles de Blois -- "Falsity and pretense" : stuffed codpieces -- Women's undergarments and the su...

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Körperschaften: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (BerichterstatterIn), Exhibition Fashioning the Body: an Intimate History of the Silhouette (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Bruna, Denis (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New Haven u.a. Yale Univ. Press 2014
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Zusammenfassung:Medieval fashion, bodies, and transformationsPuffed out chests and paunched bellies : the broadening of men's bodies from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century -- The pourpoint of Charles de Blois -- "Falsity and pretense" : stuffed codpieces -- Women's undergarments and the submission of the body in the sixteenth century -- The enigma of the iron corset -- Under the ruff -- The ancien régime of the body -- From the doublet to the justaucorps : a man's silhouette in the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries -- Whalebone bodies and panniers : the mechanics of good carriage in the eighteenth century -- Whalebone stays and corsets for children from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries -- The nineteenth century : from artifice to anonymity -- The corset, essential protagonist of modern femininity -- Crinolines and bustles, the reign of metallic artifices -- Corsets, stomach belts, and padded calves : the masculine silhouette reconfigured -- Contemporary undergarments -- Brassieres, girdles, waspies and cami-panties since 1900 -- Corsets, crinolines, and bustles in today's fashions : drawing creative inspiration from the history of undergarments -- New underware and notions of virtility in contemporary society.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 265 - 268
Beschreibung:271 S.
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ISBN:9780300204278
978-0-300-20427-8